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NCOP Petitions and Executive Undertakings
Guidelines on Executive Undertakings; Committee 4th term Quarterly Report; Committee Report
23 Sep 2015
The Committee went through the draft guidelines for the processing of Executive Undertakings in the National Council of Provinces (NCOP). The Committee wanted there to be a specific time frame and decided to scrutinize executive undertaking progress on a quarterly basis, and submit a quarterly progress report to the NCOP. ...
NCOP Security and Justice
Magistrates Commission on progress reports and provisionally suspended magistrate; Revised Draft Rules for Promotion of Administrative Justice Act; UN Security Council Terrorist Proclamations
2 Sep 2015
The Magistrates Commission presented reports on the progress with disciplinary proceedings involving provisionally suspended magistrates.
In one case, the magistrate was constantly delaying the case, and when he was available, only one witness could attend the hearing to testify. The Commission made it clear that the magistrate was not receiving ...
NCOP Petitions and Executive Undertakings
Petitions Draft Bill: consideration; Petitions Select Committee Reports
2 Sep 2015
The Parliamentary Legal Adviser briefed the Committee on the status of the draft Petitions Bill. This Bill, although in draft form, had not been introduced or formally assigned to a Committee, and the Legal Adviser discussed the content of the Bill and noted that it seemed to fall under section ...
NCOP Cooperative Governance & Traditional Affairs, Water and Sanitation and Human Settlements
Makana Local Municipality Section 139 intervention; Committee Oversight Reports on Ventersdorp & Tswaing Local Municipalities; Disaster Management Amendment Bill: negotiating mandates
1 Sep 2015
The provincial representatives read out their negotiating mandates in respect to the Disaster Management Amendment Bill. This Bill received support subject to the consideration and consolidation of some recommendations by KZN, Mpumalanga, Western Cape and Gauteng. The Provinces of Free-State, Limpopo, Northern Cape and Eastern Cape voted in favour of ...
Ethics and Members' Interest
Ethical standards for elected public representatives and implementation: workshop
25 Aug 2015
The workshop on ethical standards for elected public representatives and their implementation, was the first in a series of three workshops for all provincial legislatures, metropolitan municipalities, district councils and local municipalities. It was indicated that South Africa had an elaborative integrity framework which included codes of conduct to guide ...
NCOP Security and Justice
Maintenance Amendment Bill B16B-2014: adoption
25 Jun 2015
The Report of the Select Committee on Security and Justice on the Maintenance Amendment Bill [B 16B – 2014] (National Assembly – sec 75), dated 24 June 2015 was adopted.
Minutes of Committee meetings held on 18 March 2015; 6 May 2015; 13 May 2015; 26 May 2015; and 17 ...
NCOP Security and Justice
Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Amendment Bill: adoption of Committee Report
18 Jun 2015
The Committee met briefly to adopt the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Amendment Bill. The bill was approved unanimously with no changes.
NCOP Petitions and Executive Undertakings
Meeting deferred due to lack of quorum and concerns about Committee Reports
17 Jun 2015
The Committee was scheduled to consider and adopt several reports – Outstanding Minutes, Third Term Programme, Quarterly Report and Executive Undertakings Draft Guidelines. However, the Committee could not proceed with the business of the day as they needed as it needed a quorum. In addition, it was announced that all ...
Ethics and Members' Interest
Extension of deadline for disclosure of Members Interests
10 Jun 2015
The Chief Whips Forum had proposed that the date for the disclosure of Members’ Interests be extended from 30 June 2015 to 31 July 2015, in order to avoid a situation where Members would be late in the disclosure due to a busy programme. The Committee agreed that the deadline ...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
Capacity building in local government: Department, SALGA & SETA briefing; Municipal Managers & Section 56 Managers Appointment: implementation of regulations progress report
9 Jun 2015
Briefing on capacity building in local government
The Department of Cooperative Governance (COGTA) said that in terms of transformation standards there was still a long way to go towards functionality. A lot of resources had been spent on capacity development without yielding an impact in terms of providing the capacity ...